Ashley Young has told his Manchester United team-mates: “If we can’t get up for the derby, there’s something wrong.”

As a senior squad member, the England star was the player who stood up and apologised for a sickening humiliation at Goodison on Sunday that Gary Neville described as “rancid”.

There are now serious questions being asked not only about the motivation of the millionaire players at the club, but also about the ability of manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to inspire his squad. And Young admitted that if they can’t respond against neighbours and hated rivals Manchester City tomorrow night, then those questions are valid.

He said: “We know how important that is going to be. It is a Manchester derby.

“If you can’t get yourselves up for a Manchester derby there is something wrong.

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He said: “I think it can be. We have got to dust ourselves down fairly quickly and go again this week.

“It’s four games (left), four winnable games. If you’d looked back on us in October and we were going to be in this position we would have taken it, but a club like Manchester United should be looking much further up the table.

“We have got four games left, four wins to get. It is not going to be easy, it is going to be tough, but I am sure we can do it.”

Solskjaer will have Luke Shaw back for tomorrow after suspension, and he is also seriously considering throwing 17 year old star Mason Greenwood into the huge clash, as he looks to shake up his complacent stars.